SEESAC. 2021 ‘Findings.’ Report on the Gender Analysis of Small Arms Control Legal and Policy Frameworks in Kosovo, p. 7. Belgrade: South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC). 1 January

Relevant contents

The Small Arms, Light Weapons, and Explosives Control Strategy 2017-2021 (…) provide only limited recognition of the relevance of the gender perspective in SALW control, and thus limited entry points for gender mainstreaming. (…)

The Law on Weapons prescribes that danger to public order and safety, which includes domestic violence, represents ground for the immediate rejection of a firearm license(5) application. (…)

The SOPs [Standard Operating Procedures for Protection from Domestic Violence] take into account the risk of firearm misuse and define different levels of risks depending on whether a perpetrator possesses firearms or not, and whether he/she has threatened the victim(s) with a weapon. (…) The SOPs foresee the filling out of the so-called Basic Data Form by the police when conducting the risk assessment.

(…) [T]he Criminal Code defines that domestic violence "includes the physical, psychological, or economic violence or mistreatment with the intent to violate the dignity of another within a domestic relationship (Article 248, Criminal Code of Kosovo)."

(…) [L]icenses and weapons shall be confiscated if domestic violence occurs. (…)

(…) The security vetting for the requirements established in Article 10 of the Law on Weapons (consolidated version 97/2018) is conducted by the use of data from official records kept by relevant institutions, in particular Kosovo Police and the courts. (…)

[SALW = small arms and light weapons]

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